overrespond

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ respond.

Verb

overrespond (third-person singular simple present overresponds, present participle overresponding, simple past and past participle overresponded)

1. (intransitive) To respond excessively.
   • 2015 October 21, William Grimes, “Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The impulse behind purple prose, he wrote, “is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we become inured and have to be awakened by something intolerably vivid.”